Episodes
Institute of Historical Research The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith during the Bombing of British and Japanese Cities, 1940-1945 Chair: Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck) Aaron Moore (University of Manchester) The bombing war was an attack on urban citizens that was largely new to human history, producing many strange effects and experiences. The soldiers’ battlefield was distant, but in an age of ‘total war’ mobilisation the enemy’s targets included the civilian population; in both Japan...
Published 04/25/16
Institute of Historical Research War, the state, and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931-1960 Dr Owen Miller (SOAS) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 03/02/16
Institute of Historical Research No Country for Old Crocodiles: Fraudulent Paperworks, the Commodity Fetish, and Political Ecology in Colonial Burma Dr Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 12/10/15
Institute of Historical Research Forging India's Democratic Citizenship: The Preparation of the First Elections 1947-1952 Dr Steven Ericson (Dartmouth College) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 12/02/15
Institute of Historical Research 'Islands in Asian History': an opening roundtable event The Dilemmas of Islanding: Sri Lanka in the Early Modern Period Dr Zoltan Biedermann | UCL Commodity and Sovereignty Production in the North Pacific: The Marcus Island Incident of 1902 Dr Paul Kreitman | IHR Islands, Ports, and Maritime Networks in Nineteenth Century Dr Jeppe Mulich | LSE Heligoland: Notes on a (Very) Small Island Dr Jan Rueger | Birkbeck Comparative Histories of Asian seminar series
Published 10/15/15
Institute of Historical Research The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond Dr Micah Muscolino (University of Oxford) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 03/04/15
Institute of Historical Research Rashid al-Din, Bolad Chengxiang, and Cultural Administration in the Mongol Empire: Imperial Ambitions and Local Identities in the Production of Art, History, and Science Dr Vivienne Lo (UCL) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 02/05/15
Institute of Historical Research Survivors: Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Rise of Global memory Culture Dr Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series This session is jointly sponsored by the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck University of London
Published 11/27/14
Institute of Historical Research Toward a Transnational History of Manchuria and the Korean War, 1945-1955 Dr Adam Cathcart (University of Leeds) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 11/13/14
Institute of Historical Research The Samurai Next Door: The Bushido (Way of the Warrior) Ideology and Chinese Views of Modern Japan Dr Oleg Benesch (University of York) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 05/28/14
Institute of Historical Research A Tale of Two Mosques: Impresarios of Islam in America and Japan Professor Nile Green (UCLA) Comparative Histories of Asia
Published 05/14/14
Institute of Historical Research Dr David Motadel (University of Cambridge) Comparative Histories of Asia
Published 03/05/14
Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/ http://www.history.ac.uk/events/browse/15661 Universal Crime, Particular Punishment: Trying the Atrocities of the Japanese Occupation as Treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953 Dr Konrad Lawson (University of St. Andrew’s)
Published 02/20/14
Institute of Historical Research Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford) Comparative Histories of Asia
Published 02/06/14
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar Institute of Historical Research 23 January 2014 Ideology in Asia Doctoral Presentations: Joshua de Cruz (Birkbeck) Vivienne Guo (KCL) - Beyond Ideology: Personalising the political experience of Chinese intellectual women in the War of Resistance Steve Ivings (LSE) - Setting Imperial Japan’s Far North: The Ideology, Policy and Practice of Colonial Settlement in Karafuto Mark Walsh (Birkbeck) - The International Language? English and the Changing Face...
Published 01/23/14
Dr Mark R. Frost (Essex), Dr Christopher Gerteis (SOAS), Professor Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck) Comparative Histories of Asia seminar Institute of Historical Research 10 October 2013
Published 11/29/13